ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

Academic Preference Instructions and Schedule

For the 2015 E.C. First-Year Students

On the portal.aau.edu.et after logging on to your homepage, you will find the
various disciplines in each college and institute. You are required to indicate your
choices, in rank order, by choosing the number (1, 2, 3 …) in front of each
discipline/program in the preference form. Make sure you put the correct number
of your choice in front of every program.
Note:
1. You have to submit your preferences yourself through our online system, by
using portal.aau.edu.et.
2. Or else, you can go to your nearest registrar’s office and request a clerk to
assist you in submitting this request online. You must have a username and
password to enter into the portal.
3. If you fail to submit your preference before the set deadline (June 01 - June
02, 2023), you would have lost the opportunity for the placement system to
take your preference into consideration and the placement system will
automatically place you in a discipline of its choice.
A. Possible colleges/schools/departments for Choice for Natural Science
students
1. Dental Medicine (There will be an entrance examination by the College)
2. Medicine (There will be an entrance examination by the College)
3. Pharmacy (There will be an entrance examination by the College)
4. Veterinary Medicine
5. Veterinary Laboratory Technology
6. Other health sciences
7. Pre-engineering AAIT
8. Pre-engineering EIABC
9. Computer Science
10. Information System
11. Other Natural Sciences

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B. Possible colleges/schools/departments for Choice for Social Science
students
1. Law (There will be an entrance examination by the College)
2. Other Social Sciences
C. Placement Criteria and Schedule
1. May 31, 2023: Orientation will be given to students on available programs
and their preferences. The orientation will be held in Lidet Adarash
(Main Campus) for Natural science and Eshetu Chole Adarash (FBE
campus) for Social Science students.
2. June 01 to June 02, 2023: Students will fill their preferences online.
• Students who are interested to join Medicine, Dental Medicine,
Pharmacy, and Law should sit for the entrance Exam prepared by the
colleges. The number of students who can sit for the entrance exam will
be decided by the Colleges.
• Those students who will sit for the entrance exam will be screened by the
registrar based on their choice and Result (EUEE + First Semester GPA)
3. June 05, 2023: The potential candidates list who can sit for the entrance
exam will be communicated to the relevant colleges and the candidates
(students).
4. June 07, 2023: The colleges (CHS and CLGS) will conduct the entrance
exam.
5. June 09, 2023: The colleges (CHS and CLGS) will inform the registrar of
those students who have passed the selection criteria (EUEE + First
Semester GPA + Entrance Exam 30%) and are placed in the School of
Medicine, School of Pharmacy and School of law.
• Candidates who sat for the entrance exam but were not able to join
one of the above-mentioned schools (Medicine, Pharmacy, Law) will be
placed in other colleges based on their results (EUEE (Ethiopian
University Entrance Exam) 50%, First Semester Result (50%))
6. June 10, 2023: All other students will be placed to their preference based
on their (EUEE (Ethiopian University Entrance Exam) 50%, and First
Semester Result (50%) by the registrar.
7. June 12, 2023: Second-semester registration will be conducted.
8. June 13, 2023: Second-semester classes begin.
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